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in idea; to fancy. [R.] The ideated man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God. Sir T. Browne.

rchaic] "In ydlesse." Spenser. And an idlesse all the day Beside a wandering stream. Mrs. Browning.

oral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. Mrs. Browning. His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. F. Harrison.

The state of being ignited or kindled. Sir T. Browne.

jectionable person. Ignoring Italy under our feet, And seeing things before, behind. Mrs. Browning.

The act of catching or insnaring. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things. Sir T. Browne.

Allurement. [R.] T. Brown.

The act of dashing or striking against. Sir T. Browne.

ead light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine. Shak. The mountain's brow, Illumed with fluid gold. Thomson.

Capable of illustration. Sir T. Browne.

By way of illustration or elucidation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Wearing mail or armor; clad of armor. W. Browne.

Not manifest. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Immoderateness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Immoderateness; excess. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. Sir. T. Browne.

ith pearls or with anything resembling pearls. [Poetic] With morning dews impearled. Mrs. Browning. The dews of the morning impearl every thorn. R. Digby.

Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.

complish; to fulfill. [R.] Revenge . . . executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown. Sir W. Scott.